I have to threaten and thrash to keep them honest, while if we are at a village where the natives are a little pugnacious they are as meek as sucking doves.

The peace plan involves indignity and wrong.

I give little presents to the headmen, and to some extent heal their hurt sensibilities.

This is indeed much appreciated, and produces profound hand-clapping.
_17th December, 1872._--It looked rainy, but we waited half-an-hour, and then went on one hour and a half, when it set in and forced us to seek shelter in a village.

The head of it was very civil, and gave us two baskets of cassava, and one of dura.